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Branches smooth, without annular scars Sprengelia
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Erect shrubs. Leaves tapering from the broad base
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Sepals broad, green, much resembling the leaves. Leaves spreading or incurved, 3–5 mm long. Corolla whitish; lobes very broad, imbricate in the bud. Slender, erect, wiry shrub 30–100 cm high. Coast and adjacent plateaus. Wet heath in swampy places on sandy soils. Fl. spring Sprengelia sprengelioides